This Day In Tech » From the Earth to the Moonhttp://archive.wired.com/thisdayintech
Events That Shaped the Wired WorldMon, 16 Dec 2013 19:46:16 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.16Feb. 8, 1828: Sci-Fi’s Prophetical Father Is Bornhttp://archive.wired.com/thisdayintech/2012/02/feb-8-1828-a-literary-master-is-born/
http://archive.wired.com/thisdayintech/2012/02/feb-8-1828-a-literary-master-is-born/#commentsWed, 08 Feb 2012 11:30:29 +0000Matt Simonhttp://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/?p=21913

The author Jules Verne, considered to be the father of science fiction, is born in Nantes, France. Many of his technological imaginings, in novels such as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and From the Earth to the Moon, will eventually come to be reality.